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How Nintendo Has Described Itself From ’87 To ’09

Over the years, Nintendo, like most companies, has had to explain what in the world it is at the bottom of the press releases it issues. That description has changed. A lot. 1987 Nintendo financial earnings report… Nintendo of America Inc. is the U.S. marketing and sales arm of Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo Co. Ltd., the…

A One-Two Shot Of Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!

Club Nintendo of America is giving away a trio of exclusive prizes to members in good standing, the club announced earlier today. One of those is Doc Louis’s Punch-Out!!, a WiiWare title based on the Wii game Punch-Out!!. This is what it looks like. An awful lot like the Wii-imagined Punch-Out!!, obviously, but with the…

Times Square Getting A Wii Sports Resort Make-Over

A concrete island in New York’s Times Square will be getting a sandy beach, swimming pool and “tropical lounge” next week to help promote Nintendo’s upcoming release of Wii Sports Resort. The faux island getaway on Times Square’s Military Island, 7th and Broadway avenues, will be open to everyone from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.…

Check Out These Club Nintendo Member Platinum And Gold Member Rewards

Nintendo of America’s Club Nintendo is announcing the “Elite Status” rewards for folks who snagged Gold or Platinum Member status. According to Nintendo.com, Customers are able to register select merchandise for Nintendo Coins, which can be redeemed for Club Nintendo items. Those who reach a certain amount of Coins can become for eligible for Platinum…

Want To Peek Inside Smash Bros. Creator’s New Office?

Earlier this year, Nintendo announced it was joining forces with Smash Bros. designer Masahiro Sakurai‘s Sora Ltd. to found a new company, Project Sora. Nintendo is the principal investor, owning up to 72 percent of the company. The company is hard at work at a game, but it’s not another Smash Bros. title. Sakurai added,…

Some Words That Are, And Are Not, In Scribblenauts

There are over 10,000 nouns you can conjure in Scribblenauts. That’s a lot. To help give you an idea of just what’s included – and not included – in that number, please, consult this list. A writer from Britain’s Official Nintendo Magazine has a build of the game, and having asked readers for a list…

Black Wii Box Is From The Dark, Distant Future

Here’s the box art for the upcoming Black Wii, the first coloured variant of the console. Looks a lot like the white version! Only black. Amazing what a change in colour can do for a console. The white Wii is simple, clean, innocent. This black one? Menacing, stylish, ominous. And probably the best-looking games machine…

Nintendo Girls Aren’t Bad, They’re Just Drawn That Way

As seen on A Scoop of Melon. Thanks, Luke!

Meat Bun Levels Up With DX, XXL

Missed out on some those fan-favorite Meat Bun tees introduced last year? A trio of bestsellers rise from their grave today, redesigned and reprinted as part of the Meat Bun DX line. Plus, there’s good news for the plus-sized. Finally, after numerous requests, we’ve added roomier extra extra large sizes, so towering Fahey-proportioned types with…

Nintendo Scores Biggest Bonus Round In Japan

Summer bonuses in Japan may have plunged this year, but that didn’t stop Nintendo from reclaiming the top spot as the company with the biggest bonus ranking. Japanese companies traditionally deliver bonuses to their employees in the summer and winter, a practice that our own Brian Ashcraft tells us is losing popularity in the face…

The Nintendo Download: Incoming Pulseman

Today brings six new downloadable titles for Nintendo’s various digital delivery platforms, including the release of a rare classic, the ultimate ant farm, and a completely different sort of bit tripping. Virtual Console fans get a rare treat this week with the release of Pulseman (900 Wii points), a platform title often considered the best…

No More No More Heroes For The Wii

Goichi Suda breaks the hearts of countless Wii owners, suggesting that once No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is finished, the franchise will leave the platform behind. While No More Heroes and its star Travis Touchdown have captured the hearts of many fans on the Nintendo Wii, Suda’s ambition might just be too big for…

Jumpstart Your Heart With A Wii Remote

Can the Wii remote save lives? The American Heart Association is betting on it, pledging $50,000 to fund a student project that uses Nintendo’s TV killer to teach CPR. Associate professor of biomechanical engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Greg Walcott came up with the idea for a computer program that uses the…

Report: Games Making More Money Than Consumer Electronics In Japan

For the past 40-50 years, Japanese prosperity has been linked with the success of the nation’s world-beating consumer electronics companies. Sony, Panasonic, Fujitsu, etc. Recent figures released by analysts Eurotechnology show, however, that as those former giants of the Japanese economy take hit after hit in the current global economic crisis, the country’s games business…

Switch DS Games Without Switching Consoles

Here’s a nice compromise between the legality of using only legitimate DS cartridges and the (albeit less legal) convenience of having multiple games on the one cart: a device that lets you switch between legitimate cartridges. This is the Blaze 3-in-1 Game Selector, and while it looks a little clunky, it makes up in handiness…

Mario Marathon Fundraiser Blows Past 2008 Totals

Game marathons became something of a fad last year, but the original’s still the best. Year two of the Super Mario Marathon, which raised more than $10,000 in 2008, is already past $16,000. Update/Clarification: My remarks above failed to consider Desert Bus for Hope, which is both a year older than the Mario Marathon, is…

Toad Revealed to be Ungrateful A-hole After All

Blah blah blah, thank you Mario, another castle, etc. … But magnify the sprite and we see the rancorous contempt Toad has had for us for more than a quarter-century. Some folks claim those are Toad’s thumbs, not the double-barreled bird. I think it goes either way. Toad has been Giving Us the Finger since…

Crummy Wii Accessories Finally Triple-Jump The Shark

Get a load of this. It’s a Wii accessory kit that contains an incredible 38 pieces. 38! Enough to form a shitty white plastic Voltron, Devastator and Predaking, with enough left over to scrape together a Defensor while you’re at it. It’s manufactured by Chinese company Areus, and seems to be their “21 in 1”…

Hudson Soft Dials Up The Horror With Calling

Hudson Soft takes a stab at the horror genre with Calling for the Nintendo Wii, which transforms your Wii remote into a cell phone with direct dial service to the damned. The Calling plays on classic Japanese horror films like Ringu, with a mysterious website called the Page of Black. A simple black page with…

Starfy Parties In Rockefeller Plaza

Nintendo celebrates the release of the first Starfy title in the United States this weekend, inviting children of all ages to the Nintendo World Store in New York City for hot face painting action. The Legendary Starfy for the Nintendo DS might have been released in North America early last month, but it’s never too…